A sneak peek of something Christmassy!

I know that I shouldn't be so naughty and the new Christmas downloads and digital stamps are going to be released next weekend but, I couldn't resist giving you a little peak..

There are two backing paper collections this year and matching wordbooks.  There will also be four new digital stamps.

Join us here next Saturday (7th September) for Blog Hop to begin the launch of them. Make sure you don't forget as there will be a chance to win a great crafty prize.


We always love to see what you have been making. If you have used any of the Funky Hand Christmas downloads from previous years or created with the CDs Yule Be Funky or Twelve Crafters Crafting why not add some images to the linky below so we can all see them.  You could also add them to the Funky Hand Facebook page.  If you are unsure of how to attach pictures, no problem send them on an email to contact@funkyhand(dot)com and we will put them up for you.

See you at the weekend
Anice xx

 

Layer it up and pop it out!!!

                                    Papers from Dreams come true papercraft factory.

Good morning everyone!!
Well I hope you all took advantage of the awesome sale over on the shop?!! if you haven't, here's a little reminder for you.....

and onto my share for today!! its a zingy little number!! lovely cheery colours for the 1st September!! 

And if you fancy making your own here's the details on how to do it!!

You will need:

Green and pink dotted paper.

Large flowers paper.

plain cardstock cut at 4" x 8"

Instructions:

Score and fold your plain cardstock cut at 4" x 8" at 4". This will be your cardbase.

Cut your green and pink dotted paper. You will need 1 at 3 7/8", one at 3 2/8", one at 2 6/8".

Cut your large flowered paper, You will need one at 3 4/8", one at 3" and one at 2 4/8".

Adhere them to your card base, starting with the biggest going down to the smallest, gluing each layer on top of each other.

You will see lots of flowers on your top layer. Go to your scraps of the large flowered paper and cut out all the flowers you can see on your top layer, snipping down the lines up to the centre of your flower so that you split the petals. Turn them over and emboss them (if you don't have an embossing mat you can do this on a folded tea towel with the rounded end of a pen.

Once they are nice and curly stick them over the co-ordinating flowers on your top layer of paper on your cardbase.

And if you do make one, please share it with us, we love to see what you all do with your Funky hand papers. We have a Facebook page here or link in to our little linky tool below!

50% off SALE at Funky Hand

We thought you might like to know about the HUGE SALE that is available over on the Funky Hand website from now until Monday 2nd September.

But it's a secret.. if you were on the website now you wouldn't know anything about it!  Use the code below and grab anything available on there for HALF PRICE. Don't wait, you might miss out!  This is just between us right?!

The tags the thing

Good morning, Tabbatha here again to show off a great Funky Hand creation! Today I'm continuing with my obsession of shaped cards using the various Funky Hand download. This one came about due to the fact that I had some lilac cardstock that needed to be used up. Does anyone else have a hard time with purples? I love purple, but finding the right purple paper is so hard - that is until I met the Winter Wedding Download. Seriously, this little set is packed full of gorgeous purple papers - as we've seen in my pwetty little butterfly card.

The style of this card is actually a tag! I love this card base, from SVGCuts, it really was perfect to go with the lovely Winter Wedding papers, while letting me use the Winter Wedding Alphas as well. :D

The backing paper is paper #11, a great dark purple striped, which looks great with paper #5, the ombre polka dotted paper. I also used paper #10 for the outer petals of the flower. To create the "love" letters, I used the Winter Wedding Alphabet Plus, which is included in the Winter Wedding Papers and Alphas Combined. Since the letters do not have a contrasting border, I was able to line them up touching and print it out. This way it looks like one solid word instead of the individual alphas. This is definitely something that is super easy to do when working digital products. :D

In the last few weeks I really have been combining my love of my Silhouette Cameo and Funky Hand to explore new styles, and new techniques. One thing that I love about having digital papers is that every part of this card that uses a Funky Hand paper was print and cut from the same sheet of cardstock. This means that I didn't have to print out each individual paper and then have all this extra scrap around, although the DT really shows you how to use up your scraps! Haha I'm just a "utilize as much space as possible with little waste" type of gal, so the digital product really helps me out there. :D

Well, I hope you have enjoyed this week's installment of Tabbatha's Shaped Card Adventure. I'll be back soon with some more awesomeness.

Using our paper stash

Hi all,

It's Debbie here with a little something using up those left over papers from my cupboard. We all have scraps of paper and they are perfectly fine to use up. Why not every now and again check what you have first in your bit box/folder as they're bound to inspire you. 

We all have a mad printing session when we get a new download or cdrom - cause we can't wait to see them in the flesh.That's the beauty of computer crafting. We've got everything at our fingertips at any hour of the day.That's why Funkyhand rocks and you can get everything you want at the touch of a button.  

Being on the design team has made me look at papers differently. I was always basing my card around an image then I'd choose the papers. Now I'll use an image if I want to but love to choose my papers first and make my own embellishments by cutting out flowers etc from the papers. It's cheaper and gives your papers dimension too.Enough waffling here's my card using Funkyhand - autumn wedding papers, some ribbon, twine, buttons and a printed sentiment from Funkyhand wishes and kisses cdrom.

So what are you waiting for lets see what fab Funkyhand creations you can make.You can pop them on  or on our Facebook page. If you aren't sure how to leave a pic then leave us a comment or email one of the design team and we'll give you a hand.

That's all for now there'll be another post this week from one of the other funkettes.
Thanks for popping by.

Love Debbie x

Paper Flowers

Hello Sammylou here on the last bank holiday of the summer.

My summer holiday officially starts today and I've spent the last few weeks looking for ways to entertain my four year old while I get some sneaky crafting in. Fortunately he's already a handmade convert and fairly skilled with a pair of scissors so we have made some simple paper flowers. It's kind of like the snowflakes you made as children but without the holes cut out.

All you need are some squares of paper. I printed mine double sided using papers from the Dreams Come True CD Rom which you can pick up for the fantastic bargain price of £5.99 at the moment. My son chose some from the Just for Jen download (he does have a penchant for pink and a pritt stick!) and here's what we made:

 

 

Being the Mummy, mine are slightly smaller and embellished with some buttons and twine from my stash. Folding them in different ways and varying the cut means you can create lots of different sizes and shapes without the need for a die-cutting machine. I've outlined some of the leftover squares with a white gel pen and used a Kraft card for my base.

We're also going to try making some Christmas decorations and if they turn out well, I may just show them next time! Enjoy your weekend and the rest of the Summer holidays. And don't forget we love to see where your imagination takes you with Funky Hand. Pop a link below or join the fun on the Facebook page.

Happy crafting, love Sammylou xXx

3D Flower Card

Hello, hello! Tabbatha here again and showing off a super easy and awesome card I made using the pretty Summer Wedding backing papers. That is one amazing thing about any of the Funky Hand papers - they are so versatile!

Today I created a vintage, soft, muted card using 3 of the Summer Wedding backing papers - taking care to pick the more soft pink tones in the paper. The card project was a Silhouette Cameo project, but that is why I love Funky Hand downloadables so much - they are super easy to use with my Silhouette!

To create this card I pulled in each Summer Wedding paper that I wanted to use into my Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. With that particular edition, all I needed to do was drag and drop the paper over the shape I was going to cut out! I used the gorgeous and classy Summer Wedding Paper #2 for my packing paper, which is adhered to a muted mauve cardstock. I then used Summer Wedding Paper #3 for the strip on the bottom, which I fancied up by attaching a white lace border strip. I made care to use the more muted pink tones in Paper #3, that way it matched up with the flower. The 3D flower was made using the awesome Summer Wedding Paper #9!

**I should note here that there is variability from printer to printer. While my printer, with next to full ink, printed the Funky Hand patterns in a more muted tone, the set is quite bright, which would also make this look fabulous!

I think my favorite things to do with the Funky Hand papers are to make 3D flowers. They seriously rock for it! That and my Silhouette...hehe. I don't know where I would be without that thing, it really lets me explore what I can do with the Funky Hand papers. :D